The Metamorphosis And Other Stories

Austen, Jane / Anna Bond

A stunning deluxe edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, featuring cover art by Anna Bond (Rifle Paper Co.), gold foil details, custom sprayed edges, full-color unique endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark!Mr. and Mrs. Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who moves into a house nearby with his tw...

Macmillan Children's Books

A brilliant collection of stories based on the heroes and villains of Norse Mythology, hand-picked and collected together in this gorgeous gift treasury.Delve into the world of gods, giants and monsters, as you sit atop Air Throne and survey the kingdom of Asgard. With magnificent colour and line-work illustrations from artists such as Charles Brock, Arthur Rackham and Helen St...

Carroll, Lewis

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.These exquisite compact hardbacks ar...

Carroll, Lewis

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. ...

Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor. In...

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when th...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka, uno de los autores más influyentes de la modernidad, construyó en esta obra maestra una de sus visiones más perturbadoras del ser humano frente a la autoridad. La novela sigue a K., recién llegado a una aldea dominada por un castillo inaccesible, que intenta desempeñar un oficio cuya legitimidad nadie confirma y pronto queda atrapado en un sistema donde los trámite...

Kafka, Franz

Aquí descubrirás las obras maestras de uno de los autores más importantes de todos los tiempos. Franz Kafka no necesita presentación: cambió la historia de la literatura para siempre. Si solo fueras a leer a un escritor en tu vida, tendría que ser a él. Estos son sus textos más impactantes, los que han marcado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. No es un libro más: es una ...

Kafka, Franz

«El escritor de habla alemana más grande de nuestro tiempo.» -Vladimir Nabokov Con la excepción de La transformación, el presente volumen reúne todos los escritos que Franz Kafka dio a la imprenta en vida. Se encontrarán aquí libros completos de narraciones y de prosas breves como Contemplación (1913), En la colonia penitenciaria (1919), Un médico rural (1919) o Un artista del ...

Kafka, Franz

¿Qué sucede cuando el vínculo más fundamental se convierte en una fuente de temor y alienación? En Carta al padre, Franz Kafka nos ofrece una ventana a su alma atormentada, revelando una relación tumultuosa con su padre que marcó profundamente su vida y su obra. A través de una carta nunca entregada, Kafka explora el abismo emocional que los separa, en un intento desesperado po...

Kafka, Franz

»Ich bestehe aus Literatur« Franz KafkaMit seinen oft unvollendet gebliebenen, bis heute ihr Rätsel nicht offenbarenden Romanen, Geschichten und Parabeln ist Franz Kafka eine der maßgeblichen Säulenfiguren der modernen Literatur. Niemanden kann die Lektüre seiner Werke kalt lassen. Sie fordert heraus und wühlt auf. Zwei seiner berühmtesten Erzählungen sind in diesem Band versam...

Kafka, Franz

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentles...

Lee, Harper

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationalit...

Wells, H.g.

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.Inspiring fil...